Today, Cool has a strong effect on mainly teenagers. Has cool become a dangerous addiction? How is cool effecting teens negatively?
Intro:
- Introduce mains forms of cool for teenagers. Drinking, smoking, drugs, tattoos, piercing, infatuation with the media etc...
- why teens wish to be cool, fitting in, gaining popularity, friends,
- the dangers cool can lead up too
Cool substances teens do
- Drinking, smoking, drugs,
- Negative effects Drinking liver failure, alcoholism, smoking lung cancer, variety of health problems, drugs addiction, variety of health problems, death
- Add statistics on teenage drug abuse
Altering appearance
- Tattoos, piercing
- Ridiculous tattoos with no meaning, getting tribal piercing like gauges.
- state permanent effects that are being ignored for the sake of cool
obsession with the media
- wanting to be like celebrities, buying their clothes, following their trends, collecting their products etc...
- quotes from article about how we are never individuals, look through notes.
Conclusion
- restate the thesis
- These views on cool have been brought upon by society
- only way to change them is if we revolt against the stereotypes of cool
- its time we realize we are destroying our bodies
- live life in moderation, the damage can build up and become irreversible
Note: look through your notes for quotes from articles we looked at in class
Yasmin,
ReplyDeleteGood start. After you have this written, I'd suggest you complicate it and include some slashing around. Otherwise you might end up with a pretty typical little bungalow.